Carnival in Paris

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This is a most curious short subject with a lot of singing and dancing and merriment. Everyone's having a gay old time at Mardi Gras in Paris and waif Ann Rutherford persuades museum janitor Henry Brandon to join in the fun.

Watching this short put a big smile on my face. Henry Brandon and Ann Rutherford delight in their roles and look like they are having a grand old time.

There is a street carnival in Paris. Starving Lisette (Ann Rutherford) steals a cake and is hiding from the police in a museum.

Ann Rutherford is starving to death during Carnival. After tripping a baker and stealing some pastries, which she smears on a gendarme, she hides in a museum where some old scholars are arguing about three mummies.

Carnival in Paris (1937) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Charming short from MGM about a janitor (Henry Brandon) working in an Egytology department who finds a poor girl (Ann Rutherford) hiding from the police. The two strike up a friendship when she asks to get dressed up in some of the museum costumes to have some fun.

Starving peasant girl Ann Rutherford is on the run from the police for stealing a pastry from one of the restaurants celebrating carnival. She sneaks into a museum where Egyptologists are debating the story of the three mummies they have just received.